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Awards

Quality and Innovation Awards

The Quality and Innovation Awards recognize significant contributions to quality and innovation in the delivery of cancer care. They encourage and reward initiatives that improve the performance of cancer care in Ontario.

Eligibility Criteria

We welcome applications from any institution, practice or organization that provides cancer prevention activities or cares for people being treated for or living with cancer in Ontario.

Selection Criteria

Quality Award

The Quality Award is presented to a program or initiative that best demonstrates these criteria:

Improved outcomes

Sustainability

Economic benefits

Meaningful impact on patients, families, resources and processes

The application must show measurable evidence of how the quality initiative improved outcomes.

We define and measure quality by these dimensions and outcomes:

Increases safety

Improves effectiveness

Improves accessibility

Improves responsiveness to patients, families and person-centredness

Addresses an equity imbalance

Improves integration or transitions of care

Increases efficiency

Innovation Award

The Innovation Award is presented to a program or initiative that best demonstrates these criteria:

Originality and boldness

Improved outcomes

Sustainability

Economic benefits

Meaningful impact on patients, families, resources and processes

The application must show a plan for evaluation or measurable evidence for how the innovative initiative improved outcomes.

We define innovation as new and unique processes, products or organizations that are bold, experimental and far-reaching. The goal of innovation should be to improve the process, organization or product.

2019 Award Recipients

Learn about recent award recipients and the work they are doing to improve the performance of cancer care.

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